Reply #102: Montgomery, Alabama report

[southlandshari]

More than half the tickets for the 8:00 pm show were sold when we picked up our pre-purchased tickets at 6:00. By the time the movie started the theater was packed - had to be a sell out or very nearly one. My group of four was probably the last to actually find seats together, though we had to sit on the very front row.

Surprisingly Freeper-free (please remember that when the next round of Alabama-bashing gets underway here!). Crowd was extremely diverse, all ages, all races. The audience was very supportive, lots of laughing and clapping, especially at the end. There was also quite a bit of absolute silence at several points in the movie. The largest round of applause during the movie came when the soldier at the VA hospital in the states talked about his past as a Republican but his intention in the future to do all he could to actively campaign for the Democratic party.

As we were leaving, we ran into three different groups of people from our town (Auburn) who had also made the 50 mile drive to Montgomery for opening night. I know there were others, including a group of Auburn University Democrats, but I didn't see them. Too bad Carmike wouldn't book the movie in Auburn - probably would have had twice the interest it garnered in our sorry state capitol.